Order Soon Van
Creativity starves insanity
With a little finagling, a little Frenching and a little deception, we find ourselves in the company of a lovely gay couple at Morgan's restaurant on Williams in King Cross. Our seats are courtesy of the Sydney Star Observer, as theirs the SX Weekly.
It's Friday night, yet the massive throng on the sidewalks are nowhere to be seen outside the strip in front of the train station.
Though details requested company to be seated at the premises at exactly 1900, the relaxed attitude allows for a late running couple to sit down only a few minutes after the clock. A systematic laissez faire attitude trickles over into the pace of the five courses of the night.
Hosting tonight's special menu of a French Fusion Feast, Claire de Lune. A drag queen with an acid tongue, her style is charming and scathing of her friend in tow, Portia. At other times singing would be part of her repertoire. Thankfully the case flies against that and only a few stories and tidbits pepper the night around the serving of courses.
Taking to carnations left on the table—in the wait between sparkling water and the appetiser—make for a slow rising rethink. Rather bland and void of deep taste, the flower is left half-eaten as the first plate comes on board. Tables are close and elbows even closer to the face. Nerve reverb on edge.
An hour into the night the plates make their dance around the tables. Salmon roe, pickled seaweed, something white and crispy with black seeds and scallops sprinkled with something a little spicy. Tasty and just such a tease for the rest of the night. A night cut short for a bolt over across the other side of the City Circle in order to make it in time for Chris Addison at The Studio.
On account of a religious period of fasting to break into the weekend at the start of Friday, it nearly almost never was.
Soon Van - Sunday, 1 May 2005 - 03:31
*Optional and not kept. Read the privacy policy for more.
